Activity Description: An overnight assignment to record the amount of water you use. Objectives:
To learn why water conservation is important.
Age Group: Grades 6 - 8
Materials:
• Two clean gallon jugs (i.e., milk jugs) per student (available at home). [pic]
Introduction:TDo you ever think about how much water you use? 183 gallons are treated every day for each person in the United States. There are an estimated 2.0 million people living in the Albemarle-Pamlico watershed. We all need water to carry on our daily functions. We must remember that the water we use every day is the same water that many people reuse to drink, cook with, and bathe. It is also the same water in which we fish and swim as it reaches the Sounds. [pic]

People and Water - It Adds Up
• A toilet flushes 5 gallons
• A dishwasher uses 16.5 gallons
• A bath uses 30-50 gallons
• A shower uses 5-10 gallons/ minute
• Washing clothes uses 40-60 gallons (permanent press uses 12-18 more gallons) Water, Water Everywhere? People today use much more water than they did in times past. Did you know the amount of water in the world today is the same as it was billions of years ago? While from a spaceship, our Earth looks like it is mostly water, only one percent of all water is freshwater we can use. Cities, industry, and agriculture have huge water demands. Our streams and rivers have limited amounts of water during dry weather. Some of our streams contain mostly treated sewage. Since these streams are home for wildlife and we use them to fish and swim, cleaning wastewater before it reenters our streams and rivers is of vital importance. Wastewater Treatment

For those of us living in a town, whenever we turn on a faucet or flush a toilet, we send water to a sewage (wastewater) treatment plant. A well-engineered wastewater treatment plant that is not overloaded does an excellent job of cleaning...

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Don't wallow, shoot into the shower
A quick shower uses far less water than a long soak in the tub. Think twice before you have one!
Save your washing up for one wash
Instead of washing up as you go, save it up and do it in one go to minimise the amount of water you use. As one MoneySaver says, it's a great excuse to leave the washing up!
Conserve water and 'mulch' your garden plants
Mulching garden plants (covering with wood chippings or leaf mould) reduces the need for watering as they will retain moisture for longer. See the BBC's guide on how to mulch.
Love the shade - keep plants out of the sun
Moving pot plants and house plants out of the sun helps limit the amount of water they need once they've had their fair share of sunshine.
Watering the plants? Don't forget your roots
Use the simple trick of an upside-down water bottle with holes in it to get water direct to the roots of your plants - this should help save waste.
Turn it off - don't run the tap
When cleaning don't run the tap, instead use a wash bowl to rinse cloths.
Clean the car smartly
When you really get to the point you have to clean the car, use a bucket of hot soapy water and a watering can of cleanwater to rinse - no need to use a hose at all. Consider using waterless valeting products too.
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...Waterresources should be nationalised
If the rivers are Nationalized we can get a massive improvements of Agriculture over complete India and there will be more productivity and consumer will get all goods at very cheaper price and can export too.
According to me nationalization of waterresources has its own pros and cons.
The brighter side promises reduced inter -state conflicts, lower exploitation by individual states, higher portion of water available to farmers and greater monetary support allocation by the Central Government. Further if water is privatized in high water consuming sectors of metro- cities it would reduce overuse of water. On the other end it could lead to unfairly distribution of water by the government. Therefore it is difficult to come to a unanimous conclusion.
Water is a natural resource. But this time a lot people are wasting this natural resource due to some bad guys foolish work other persons are also facing problem of water. This resource is continuously decreasing in all over the world. But government is not taking any step over this they are looking after themselves. There must be strict rule over the use of water if this is not done early then world is going to face a great problem. Water must be...

...Introduction……………………………………………………………………..…………p2
What do we need water for………………………………………….………………p2
How much water do we use…………………………………………………………p2
What do we use water for…………………………………………….………………p2
Causes……………………………………………………………………………..……P3-4-5
Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………..………p6
References……………………………………………………………………………..……p6
Water: Why is it the most preciousresource and what can be done to preserve and conserve it?
Water is the world’s most precious recourse. We need water for everything. We need it to drink, to wash ourselves, to cook, to feed the plants in the garden and even some of our food lives in water. But we also need it for transport and recreation.
We use it to travel and at the same time for pleasure. We need water every second of the day. We all know the saying “keeping your head above water” which means that you are surviving, you have just enough to live, to get by. But what happens if there is no more water? In certain parts of the world water is already very scarce. Since many years this is a serious problem and it is not getting any better. But what happens if mankind doesn’t do anything about this and lets the situation escalate. How can we solve this problem, and what can we do to use less water?
Many years of...

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Water, a basis of survival of all living organisms is also considered as the basic pre-requisite of development. Being second richest country in waterresources, Nepal is gifted by Himalayan ranges in the north with ever flowing snow melted rivers and fresh water springs with huge power of producing energy and fetch out drinking water to the people.
Similarly, no any economic as well as socioeconomic developments are possible without availability of water. Specially, Nepal and her GDP (Gross Domestic Product) are dependent on agriculture and about 62% of Nepalese are involved in agriculture for their livelihood which requires abundant amount of water for irrigation.
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